SORRENTO — A Lake County man described as a "neighborhood mechanic" was taken into custody Wednesday after a multiagency drug raid on a house in rural Lake County. Eustaquio Martinez, 47, was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana after federal agents discovered two metal tanks containing the drugs on his property that had been shipped from Texas. A second man, Pedro Luis Lebron of Apopka, was charged after he delivered the drug shipment to Martinez on orders from another drug trafficker.

On March 11, 2005, a SWAT team from the Sanford Police Department forced its way into a home on Celery Avenue, armed with a search warrant. Inside they found two men, Rachel Fryer and two of her young children. They also found marijuana on the kitchen table and crack cocaine, according to an arrest report. Child-abuse investigators were at the house, too. They took the two children into protective custody, and Fryer would never again be their legal parent. After that drug raid, Fryer permanently gave up her right to her children, according 100 pages of records released Thursday by the Florida Department of Children and Families.

Cooperation pays off, Canadian and British police always say. Seized in Montreal and London: 128 pounds of heroin. Street value: $300 million. It was the largest drug seizure for either Britain or Canada, said a Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman. About 79 pounds of heroin was seized in London May 30, and the remainder was confiscated in a raid on a Montreal warehouse last Friday, authorities said. Arrested: Three Canadians and one American. Police say they think they cracked a major international drug trafficking ring.

Authorities are reporting that two U.S. Marshals were shot and wounded this morning during a search in Highlands County of a suspected drug house, according to the Tampa Tribune. Read the full story at tbo.com .

Lake deputies shocked a Great Dane after the dog attacked them this morning while they searched for drugs at two homes in a rural part of the county near the Ocala National Forest. The dog bit two detectives — one may need stitches — at a house on First Street in Astor before it was tased and turned over to animal control. Four people were arrested. Lt. Jim Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said Steven Maden and his wife Kristin Ressitt were arrested about 6 a.m. at their home on First Street for allegedly selling and possessing Oxycodone.

ORANGE COUNTY SWAT team members tiptoed in reverse Wednesday morning when a drug raid turned up six sticks of explosives ready to go off, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. The SWAT team backed out after helping two elderly residents evacuate the house on Alfred Drive near Lee Road. The explosives and digital timers were defused by the agency's bomb squad, Deputy Barbara Miller said. A subsequent search found an undisclosed amount of cocaine in a safe inside the house, Miller said.

EUSTIS -- A SWAT team raided a residence and arrested three people on drug charges Thursday, concluding a two-month narcotics investigation. About 6:30 a.m., officers with the Eustis Police Department entered a residence in the 300 block of East Clifford Avenue and found marijuana, cocaine, prescription pills and drug paraphernalia, Capt. R.A. Robinson said. The owner of the residence, Michael E. Gilbert, 23, was arrested, accused of drug possession and on outstanding narcotics-related warrants, Robinson said.

Three undercover police officers were shot Thursday by a uniformed officer during a drug raid. Police had no immediate explanation for why the officer fired on his fellow officers, spokesman Rob Weinhold said. An investigation was to begin immediately. When police arrived at the east Baltimore row house, a suspect ran out the back door, where several plainclothes officers captured him. As the group came into the house, it was met by shots fired by an officer who had come in the front door.

The operators of a barbecue business have lodged a formal complaint regarding the ''actions and manners'' of law enforcement officers who conducted a drug raid near their business Friday night.In a letter to City Manager Rex Taylor, the owner and two employees of Montclair Barbeque requested a chance to air their complaints at Monday's commission meeting. Copies of the two-paragraph letter were sent to the city's five commissioners.Two of letter signers, Randy Hepburn and Rose Mary Brown, said Tuesday they would rather not comment until after the meeting.

A suspected cookhouse for manufacturing crack cocaine has been raided by police, who found two loaded pistols, $7,500 in cash and drug paraphernalia.Three Tampa men were arrested Wednesday after a search warrant was served on the residents of 1014 W. Eighth St., said Police Chief Steve Harriett. He said the house had been under surveillance for 14 months.Harriett said a room where police found two microwave ovens, scales and sifters appeared to have been set up to manufacture the crack, an inexpensive derivative of cocaine.

Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation agents said they have dismantled a large Orange County drug ring, and issued arrest warrants Tuesday for 20 associates of the group. Investigators raided three homes in the Taft area Tuesday morning, just west of Orlando International Airport, including the "compound" of the suspected ringleader Stevie D. Smith. During the raids, agents seized more than a dozen guns, a sword, drugs, and property that appeared to be stolen. Agents say Smith, a career criminal, supplied oxycodone, methamphetamine, other prescription drugs and cocaine to buyers throughout Orange and Osceola counties.

Agents raided three locations in New Smyna Beach and arrested 16 people during a crackdown on street-level dealers in east Volusia County on Tuesday. Another 27 people are wanted on drug warrants related to the ongoing investigation, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office . The 16 suspects face a total of nearly 40 criminal charges. The crackdown was prompted by complaints and anonymous calls about drug activity.

Five people were arrested and nearly 400 baggies of suspected crack cocaine were confiscated after two homes in the Highland Village community of North Miami Beach were raided, police said. According to North Miami Beach Police, the raids were carried out simultaneously Thursday evening with assistance from police departments in Aventura and North Miami. One home was located along the 2100 block of of Northeast 135th Terrace and the other was along the 13600 block of Highland Drive.

A convicted sex offender was picked up Thursday night on drug charges after deputies raided his Orlo Vista home, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. More than a half pound of marijuana, an ounce of cocaine and a stolen handgun were seized after tipsters alerted the sheriff's office that pot was being sold at Carey Crownover's home near Hiawassee Road, an arrest report states. Crownover, 48, denied selling drugs but told a deputy that some of the pot was his, the report states.

A clear eye Last month's drug raid in Greenland that led to the deaths of three people and the wounding of four others was so shocking and unusual that a full public accounting is essential. On Tuesday, Attorney General Michael Delaney provided an account of the tragic events of that day, and he added that still more needs to be learned about the incident. Toward that end, he named a panel of experienced authorities in New Hampshire to conduct a deeper review, and he took pains to say that none of its members has any ties to the police agencies that were involved in the incident.

SORRENTO — A Lake County man described as a "neighborhood mechanic" was taken into custody Wednesday after a multiagency drug raid on a house in rural Lake County. Eustaquio Martinez, 47, was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana after federal agents discovered two metal tanks containing the drugs on his property that had been shipped from Texas. A second man, Pedro Luis Lebron of Apopka, was charged after he delivered the drug shipment to Martinez on orders from another drug trafficker.

Lake deputies shocked a Great Dane after the dog attacked them this morning while they searched for drugs at two homes in a rural part of the county near the Ocala National Forest. The dog bit two detectives — one may need stitches — at a house on First Street in Astor before it was tased and turned over to animal control. Four people were arrested. Lt. Jim Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said Steven Maden and his wife Kristin Ressitt were arrested about 6 a.m. at their home on First Street for allegedly selling and possessing Oxycodone.